North Carolina Union Volunteers

(1862—1865)

They have been forgotten, those white Southerners who fought on the Union side. They are the unknown soldiers of the Civil War. In the vast and growing literature of that conflict they remain practically unmentioned. There are historic reasons why this has been so, but it has not been because the men are historically unimportant or undeserving of remembrance. Not at all. They made a difference in the outcome of the war: without them, it would not have ended when and as it did. - Lincoln’s Loyalists

2nd-Organized at New Bern November, 1863. Consisted of five companies, A to F, excluding D. Appears as 2nd N.C. Union Inf., 2nd Inf. N.C. Union Vols. Consolidated with 1st N.C. Inf. by Special Order No. 27, AGO, January 1865. Mustered out June 27, 1865 at New Bern.

November, 1863 – Organized at New Bern, N. C.To April, 1864 – Attached to District of New Bern, N. C., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina.To February, 1865 – Sub-District of Beaufort, N. C., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina.